W3C & the Great Standards Swindle

A Mr Last Week Special Investigation

We have been conned!

Mr last week has been left with cowper's running down his chin and Mrs last week wearing nothing but a pearl necklace.

anonymous sez:

Sorry Mr. Last Week and Ms. Last Week, I love your work but Hixie is right on this one. The W3C does not, for legal reasons, publish "standards". Real *standards* must be legally enforceable and endorsed by Governments (hence ISO and the WTO). The W3C is a Consortia (hence the name World Wide Web CONSORTIUM): a place where businesses can agree on and make "recommendations". Recommendations are just that: recommendations.

Keep up the great work, Mr Last Week... but keep it well informed too. Otherwise you end up looking like an ignorant fuck and just like those you are trying to mock.

note to anon: mr last week prides himself on his ignorence and fuckedness.

The scam is worldwide, a search on google for "W3C standards" returns ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND results.

shocking!
Venerable organizations such as Opera have been hoodwinked into using the term with their web standards curriculum.

Opera proudly proclaims:

the Opera browser is the strictest supporter of the W3Cs technical standards in the browser market today.

mr last week sez: this smells of blorsen's armpit and little jimmy graham's trench.

standards suck!
Even yesterday the hi-falutin brain case of our madje is sullied with this stream of semantic piss emanating from the W3Cs pee hole.

# Standard-based Web Application?

mr last week sez: calling blorsen and the gang... we need the might of the web recommendations project to sort out another fine mess of the W3Cs making.